It's Wednesday!!

Nothing special about this Wednesday other than it's the day before Cinco De Mayo! Happy Cinco De Mayo to all that celebrate this holiday.  I just felt like writing a blog today and I do have a cople of things to share. First, I have recently discovered Floss Tube in a biiiig way and so this is what I have been stitching to.  I set up my iPad and watch (listen) to videos while I stitch. Some of the videos are very entertaining and informative. Now you know I like to try different things outside of my comfort zone and I have gotten it into my head that if some of these people can make videos and have hundreds of views and comments on them, I CAN TOO.  Well it was a leap of faith to start this blog and here I am. I may not be as popular as some but I get enough visits and comments to stay alive and I am so grateful to all of you. I'll let you all know if there is ever a floss tube video of me to watch, I've been practicing.  Anyway back to what I was saying, I found out that there is something called stitch may-nia going on, I don't know all of the rules but I think it's like when you have a new start for each day of the month of May (maybe?). I have seen so many beautiful designs and can't wait to start seeing progress on some of them. There is also a HAED (Heaven and Earth Designs) challenge going on, I think people stitching HAEDs are given a different challenge every month or so. I have a couple of small freebies but have never stitched a HAED, I don't enjoy the wall to wall stitching with all the confetti, that drives me crazy. There is also a Mirabilia craze going on out there in video-land I do like the dresses on the ladies in the Mirabilia designs but the faces aren't expressive as my Joan Elliotts.  Well that was my opinions on floss tube, HAEDs and Mirabilias, on to what I have been working on. In my last post I showed the "Seafarer's Globe" that I had started well here is as far as I got before putting it away for a while.

This is one half, I even did the back stitch on everything except the scroll at the top, that I want to work all together at one time. As you can see there is the tail of the sea serpent down in the lower left corner. This is a great design. Since I was in the mermaid mood I worked on the "Sea Goddess".

I finished off some more sea weeds and added another little sea horse and will soon be able to start on her tail which is gorgeous. I had another chart that started calling to me so I took out this Little House Needleworks "Needlework School and started on it. This is where I am now.

I may continue to work on this one at "stitch-night" at my LNS  so you may see it again soon. One more thing before I go, I got the 2017 Keepsakes Calendar in the mail and now instead of putting the charts for the included designs in the calendar there is a separate booklet.

Here are the designs for 2017, there is a Joan Elliott for October, whoo hooo!

Well got to go make some wonderful little xxs, thanks for visiting.

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